(19)
(11) EP 1 026 857 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
05.11.2003 Bulletin 2003/45

(43) Date of publication A2:
09.08.2000 Bulletin 2000/32

(21) Application number: 99112832.3

(22) Date of filing: 02.07.1999
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)7: H04L 12/58, H04L 29/06
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE
Designated Extension States:
AL LT LV MK RO SI

(30) Priority: 04.02.1999 JP 2709699

(71) Applicant: MATSUSHITA GRAPHIC COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, INC.
Meguro-ku Tokyo 153-8687 (JP)

(72) Inventor:
  • Saito, Kyoji
    Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa 214-0003 (JP)

(74) Representative: Grünecker, Kinkeldey, Stockmair & Schwanhäusser Anwaltssozietät 
Maximilianstrasse 58
80538 München
80538 München (DE)

   


(54) E-mail apparatus, internet facsimile apparatus, and e-mail communication system


(57) If there is an address input, a setting determining section(41) checks whether or not a Bcc flag is on. Next, the setting determining section (41) determines that a first address is set to a field [To:]. While, the setting determining section (41) determines that addresses including and after a second address are set to a field [Bcc:]. Next, a header generating section(45) describes the first input address in the field [To:] of a mail header. The addresses including and after the second address are described in the field [Bcc:] of the mail header. Next, the mail header generated by the header generating section (45) and a TIFF file text-coded by a text coding section are combined with each other by a combining section (47) , so that an e-mail is generated. As a result, the large number of addresses is automatically allocated to the fields [To:] and [Bcc:].






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